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Axel Baum

Retired Partner

Paris

+33 (0) 1 44 05 80 01

axel.baum@hugheshubbard.com
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Areas of Concentration

  • International arbitration (chairman, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, counsel or expert in more than 100 international arbitrations)
  • International business transactions including company law, acquisitions, joint ventures, contracts, licenses, energy and insurance
  • European Union competition law

Professional Activities

  • US member, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration (2000 – 2006)
  • Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Panel of Distinguished International Mediators
  • ICC Commission on International Arbitration (chair, United States Council for International Business (USCIB) Expatriate Arbitration Subcommittee; past member of working parties and chairman of forum)
  • CPR, member of European Advisory Board
  • Member, College of Commercial Arbitrators (US)
  • Member, Advisory Committee to French Ministry of Justice on reform of French business law
  • Member of leading arbitration associations; for example, American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), USCIB, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA), German Institute of Arbitration (DIS), French Comité de l'Arbitrage, International Arbitration Institute (IAI)
  • On panels of leading arbitration institutions; for example, USCIB, ICDR, LCIA, ASA, DIS, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)
  • Frequent speaker at conferences and author of articles on arbitration

Recognition

  • Named Arbitrator of the Year 2005 by Décideurs Juridiques (leading French legal Journal)
  • Ranked among leading arbitrators in Euromoney’s Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration; Chambers Global Guide; Who’s Who Legal; Décideurs Juridiques Rankings; PLC Handbook on Dispute Resolution; Legal Business European Experts Report
  • Listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who’s Who in Law

Highlighted Publications

  • Arbitration Unlimited (recent French case analysis) Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (2008)
  • “International Arbitration: The Path Toward Uniform Procedures,” in Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolutions, edited by Gerald Asken, Paris: ICC Publishing, 2006
  • Co-author, “International Arbitration,” in The College of Commercial Arbitrators’ Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration, edited by James M. Gaitis, JurisNet LLC, 2006
  • “Anti-Suit Injunctions Issued by National Courts,” Anti-Suit Injunctions in International Arbitration, IAI & JurisNet LLC, 2005
  • “Reconciling Anglo-Saxon and Civil Law Procedure,” in Law of International Business and Dispute Settlement in the 21st Century, Karl Heymanns Verlag, 2005

Additional Information

Community Activities / Board Memberships

  • American Aid Society Paris (chairman of board of directors)
  • World Monuments Fund (France) (member of board of directors and secretary)
  • American Library of Paris (former member of board of trustees)
  • American Chamber of Commerce in France (former member of board of directors)


Military Service

  • US Navy Reserve, Lieutenant (active duty 1952 – 1954 USS Cambria)


Clubs

  • Yale Club of New York
  • Polo Club of Paris
  • Yacht Club de France
  • Swedish Cruising Club

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District (E.D.N.Y. 1958)
  • U.S. Supreme Court (1974)
  • Tribunal de Grande Instance (Paris)

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Celebrating 50 Years in Hughes Hubbard's Paris Office
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Axel Baum Honored for Leadership of US Arbitration Community in Europe
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Hughes Hubbard Recognized By GAR 100 2016
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Education
  • Yale Law School, LL.B., 1957, Managing Editor, Yale Law Journal
  • Amherst College, B.A., 1952, cum laude
Bar Admissions
  • France (Paris), 1966
  • New York, 1958
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German

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